Making the invisible, visible.

VAC Group

Protecting Underground Assets

Innovative Underground Asset Solutions

VAC Group is the leader in the non-destructive-vacuum excavation, utility locating, soil disposal and soil removal industry. As a professional service provider, we ensure all of our work is compliant to work health and safety and environmental legislation and have a particular focus on the safety of our employees, as well as other members of the community. We also specialise in the plant hire industry which includes sucker trucks and Vac-U-Digga for hire and for sale.

We service throughout Australia with offices nation-wide. Our head office is located in Brisbane, and we have depots in Gladstone, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. We also have vast experience delivering safe excavation services for rural and remote infrastructure projects. No matter how small, large or complex the project is, we strive to provide you with the best solutions at competitive prices.

Our fleet of vacuum excavators, sucker trucks, and Vac-U-Digga units are available in various sizes to suit all projects from residential, urban, commercial and remote areas. We maintain our plant to the high standards to ensure that they are safe, reliable and ready to perform before they commence a project, throughout the project lifecycle and to completion .

Our approach is to work closely with clients to ensure that underground utilities are safely and accurately identified, so that effective solutions can be achieved at the earliest opportunity in the design and construction phases.

Since its inception in 2000, VAC Group has strived to bring the latest technologies and innovations for true non-destructive vacuum excavation, underground utilities and all underground services to Australia. Our employees have an abundance of experience and knowledge that is shared within our company and our teams.

We have built a strong track record and reputation as the industry leader in Australia by providing custom solutions to all projects, particularly those involving conflicts with underground utilities. Our solutions ensure the protection of all underground assets and actively prevents the potential for serious incidents, injuries and interruption to vital services.

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Our Services

VAC Group provides our clients with solutions to protect the integrity of underground assets, by supplying underground asset location, mapping and safe excavation services. Our clients include ‘blue chip’ private companies and Federal, State and Local Government organisations, undertaking predominantly infrastructure projects and civil and building works.

Uniquely, we can offer a ‘One Stop Shop’ with an array of technologies and products designed to assess and mitigate the underground utility related risks associated with the design and construction of civil and infrastructure works.

As a professional service provider, Vac Group can transport manage and dispose of client material and waste. Vac Group also maintains and can prepare Environmental Management documentation including plans, procedures and the like.

Uniquely, we can offer you a ‘One Stop Shop’ with an array of technologies and products designed to assess and mitigate the underground utility related risks associated with the design and construction of civil and infrastructure works.

These ‘One Stop Shop’ services include, but are not limited to:

Initial consultation;

Gathering DBYD plans;

Electronic location/2D GPR;

High resolution 3-D imagery;

Surface removal of asphalt/concrete & jack hammering;

Backfill & surface reinstatement/PVC marker installation;

Non-destructive excavation/trenching/potholing/footings;

Confined space entry/equipment;

Assistance in pipe laying/ pit & pipe installation;

High velocity pipe jetting;

General vacuum removal/ pump outs & high pressure cleaning;

Survey / CAD mapping;

Fixed contract rates and quotations

Our Clients

Contact VAC Group today to arrange a personalised obligation-free quote.